In my piano student days, inspired by this very same recording, I bought the music and tried to learn one of these pieces. My piano teacher didn't discourage me, but he didn't recommend this either. I guess he knew what the outcome would be--all I succeeded in doing was tying my fingers up in knots.

Ever since then, I'm just a listener. Alicia de Larrocha is the premier interpreter of this gorgeous music.

Horowitz recorded the work for RCA in 1976 or 1977 . I heard him play it live in 1975 or 1976 as the entire first half of a recital. Not a work I've ever warmed to, but it has been years so I will listen again, thanks for the reminder.

Horowitz recorded the work for RCA in 1976 or 1977 . I heard him play it live in 1975 or 1976 as the entire first half of a recital. Not a work I've ever warmed to, but it has been years so I will listen again, thanks for the reminder.

Somehow I love this Schumann Sonata and it's "Clara theme".

Goyescas; I just love this. The death of Granados was just awful - a passenger ferry in the English channel torpedoed in WW1 - when he and his wife were both killed, leaving 6 children.

My ears may have played tricks on me in the Rachmaninov on MediciTV which I earlier discussed. It certainly was a 'percussive' reading with much of the poetry parked at a siding!! Perhaps you are right and this is the reason I misheard some of the passages. I really don't know.